Cutting edge: Preferentially the R-stereoisomer of the mycoplasmal lipopeptide macrophage-activating lipopeptide-2 activates immune cells through a toll-like receptor 2- and MyD88-dependent signaling pathway

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 554-557

  Takeuchi, Osamu ^a,b   Kaufmann, Andreas ^c   Grote, Karsten ^d   Kawai, Taro ^a,b   Hoshino, Katsuaki ^a,b   Morr, Michael ^d   Mühlradt, Peter F ^d   Akira, Shizuo ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; LIPOPEPTIDE; LIPOPROTEIN; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0034650420     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.2.554     Document Type: Article

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